Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, DONARD LODGE

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, DONARD LODGE
Date: 1829-1832
Nature: JL designs and builds garden front and builds entrance front to designs by Duff and Jackson.
Refs: Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1973), 11(no.16,illus.); Gordon Wheeler, 'John Lynn - Architect/Contractor/Engineer', Lecale Miscellany (1997), 33-35(illus.)

Name: DUFF & JACKSON
Building: CO. DOWN, DONARD LODGE
Date: 1832-33ca;1836
Nature: Duff & Jackson and also John Lynn involved in design of additions; further additions proposed by Duff in 1836.
Refs: Drawings in PRONI D1503/10/?,17; see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS 1972), 11 (nos. 16,17, drawings reproduced in plate section); Peter Rankin, Mourne (UAHS, 1975), 78,80,81(illus.); Gordon Wheeler, 'John Lynn - Architect/Contractor/Engineer', Lecale Miscellany (1997), 33-35(illus.)

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, DONARD LODGE
Date: 1836
Nature: Gate lodge. (Larmour says TD designed gate lodges and extensive addition to main house.)
Refs: Signed and dated plan and elevation in PRONI D1503/10/16,21a, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 16 (no.51); P.J. Rankin, Mourne (UAHS, 1975), 80 (no.54),81(illus), drawing reproduced on p.69; Paul Larmour, 'That eminent and tasteful architect', Perspective7, No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1998), 61

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DOWN, DONARD LODGE
Date: 1864a
Nature: 'A beautiful and picturesque grotto has been ereceted to receive the waters of the chalybeate springs found on the estate of Donard Lodge.'
Refs: DB 6, 15 Jul 1864, 144

Name: HIGGINBOTHAM, FREDERICK WILLIAM
Building: CO. DOWN, DONARD LODGE
Date: 1921
Nature: Cottages in demesne, for Lady Mabel Annesley.
Refs: IB 63, 13 Aug 1921, 550